Community & education |
Crowdsourcing Technical Ethereum Content for Taipei |
Nic Lin |
Open call for technical documents Taipei’s Ethereum community. |
Community & education |
Crypto Economics Security Conference |
Berkeley Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence |
The Crypto Economics Security Conference is a gathering of researchers and practitioners who will discuss the latest developments in web3. |
Community & education |
Cryptoversidad |
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Spanish language content for learning about the Ethereum blockchain. |
Community & education |
Cypher Plato BAM |
Cypher_plato |
A crypto study group in Latin America has created an online course that teaches junior developers the technical skills and knowledge needed to contribute to Ethereum’s ecosystem. Platohedro. |
Community & education |
Devcon Scholarships |
Ethereum Caracas |
Scholarships for Ethereum community leaders in Venezuela, or Venezuelans living in Latin America to attend Devcon VI and receive support. |
Community & education |
DreamDAO Explorers program |
DreamDAO |
Support for the Dream DAO Explorers Program, a two-month program for young people aged 15-20 years old who are interested in building the future of social impact web3 x. |
Community & education |
DWeb Camp |
Internet Archive |
Five-day conference aimed at tackling the real-world problems facing web3 as well as co-creating the decentralized technologies of tomorrow. |
Community & education |
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Espacio Cripto |
Latin American builders encouraged to attend Devcon VI by community engagement. |
Community & education |
ETHAnglia Meetup |
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Meetup for the purpose of raising funds to support scholarships to Devcon VI, and to celebrate ETHAnglia Zero to Web3 Bootcamp’s success. |
Community & education |
ETHBerlin³ |
Department of Decentralization |
Three-day hackathon in Berlin focusing topics such as privacy, security, sustainability, public goods. |
Community & education |
ETHBrno² |
UTXO Foundation |
Three-day open community hackathon in Brno focusing on privacy, security and trust. |
Community & education |
ETH Gathering |
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Barcelona, Spain, hosts a two-day conference with programming categorized into four clusters: data, security, DeFi and DAOs. |
Community & education |
ETHLatam at Quito |
Ethereum Ecuador |
The Merge, smart contracts and decentralized wallets will be discussed at an event in Quito, Ecuador. |
Community & education |
ETHMalaysia |
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Three-day conference and hackathon aimed at Southeast Asia’s Web3 community is organized in Kuala Lumpur. |
Community & education |
ETHMedellín |
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One week of distributed events happening around Medellín, Colombia with a central co-working space for the community to gather and collaborate after Devcon VI. |
Community & education |
EthPanama |
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Three-day conference with hackathon to be held in Panama City. The goal is to build a hub and gateway for connecting local and foreign organizations. |
Community & education |
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ETHPlanet |
Support community initiatives in China, including conferences, hackathons and connecting academic researchers.source Ethereum to be used by communities as a test platform |
Community & education |
ETHSafari |
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Kilifi hackathon and conference to be held in Kilifi Kenya for a week long event to showcase innovation and close the gap between global and African Ethereum ecosystem. |
Community & education |
Ethereum Santiago |
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Santiago, Chile hosts an event with panel discussions and talks on the first and second days and a developer’s bootcamp on day two. |
Community & education |
EthereumSP |
Ethereum Brasil |
Hackathon is a two-day programming marathon that allows participants to exchange ideas and learn more about web3 related projects. |
Community & education |
Ethereum Eje Cafetero Event Support |
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Support to Ethereum Eje Cafetero Members who attend FESTIC and give Ethereum-related talks. EAM University‘s Engineer Day. |
Community & education |
Ethereum Lima Day |
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In Lima, Peru, a full day of discussions about Ethereum and its uses will be held. |
Community & education |
Exploration of Nonprofit Organizations’ Uses of Ethereum |
TIFF |
Research on the current and future potential uses of Ethereum for non-profit organisations, including possible risks and benefits. |
Community & education |
Hackers Congress Parallel Polis |
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Over three days, a congress will be held in Prague that will focus on freedom and cryptography. Other topics include decentralized economy and cryptocurrency, political art and hacking as well science and technology. |
Community & education |
JAMHacks 6 |
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Hackathon aimed at high school students across North America. Includes beginner-friendly workshop and mentors who can guide new hackers. |
Community & education |
Kyiv Tech Summit |
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Hackathon and Conference hosted in Kyiv (Ukraine) to help the Ukrainians in their struggle for freedom. |
Community & education |
Merge Meetups Grants Round |
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Round of Grants The Merge meetups and watch parties around the globe Focusing on education. |
Community & education |
NextStep |
HackAlphaX |
Virtual hackathon for students aged between 10 and 21, with daily hacker Hangouts, introductory workshops, and hackathons. |
Community & education |
Node Operator Documentation |
Gateway.fm |
Documentation to teach smaller node operators who run staking pools about how to run their nodes efficiently and securely. |
Community & education |
Hackathon Taiwan ZKP to receive Quadratic Funding |
ZK Playground |
Run one quadratic financing round for each of the two stages zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs hackathon—the first round involves creating a project proposal, and the second round involves developing a proofThe project’s proof-of-concept. |
Community & education |
Retrox |
Fernando Almansa, Jan Ole Ernst, Jessica Pointing, Konrad Kopp. Kyle J. Duffy |
Exploring and implementing a fully open-chain, on-chain-based system.source Protocol focused on funding public goods by developing multiple voting logics, and a platform that is highly variable for disbursement of funds. |
Community & education |
Solidity Bootcamp |
Blockdemy |
The registration fee for this three-week program in Spanish will be waived for up to 100 women. |
Community & education |
Documentation Staking Operator |
Kiln |
Kiln’s blog posts are a collection of technical documentation for stake operators. They are based on Kiln’s experience as a node administrator. |
Community & education |
web3beach Meetups |
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Meetings in Utila combine conservation efforts with Web3 education. |
Community & education |
Web3 Lagos Conference |
Web3Bridge |
Three-day event in Lagos, Nigeria, covering topics including The Merge (the new platform), community onboarding and Nigeria’s Developer ecosystem. |
Community & education |
Zero to Product Bootcamp |
Ethereum Antioquia The following are some examples of how to get started: Blockchain eX |
Five workshops that provide developers the basic skills needed to create a web3 application from scratch. |
Community & education |
zkSummit 8 |
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The event will include talks and workshops on the latest ZK research and SNARKs and STARKs as well as cryptographic primitives and privacy. |
Community & education |
#aPRENDOcripto |
Proof of Integrity |
Workshops are being held in low-socioeconomic neighborhoods of Buenos Aires to educate residents on the basics of cryptography, web3 and personal finances. |
Consensus layer |
Beaconcha.in Improvements |
Bitfly |
Beaconcha.in Usability Improvementssource Ethereum mainnet Explorer that is available to all users, even those who are not technically minded. It provides open-source code.source mobile apps Validator Monitoring on iOS and Android. |
Consensus layer |
Data Availability Sampling Networking RFP |
ChainSafe |
Researching and designing a Data Availability Sampling Solution (DAS), which will include holistic analyses, experimental results, a proposal for an architecture, a formal specifications, and a repository containing a proof-of-concept prototype. |
Consensus layer |
Data Availability Sampling Networking RFP |
DataHop |
Designing and analysing a scalable and secure peer-topeer network that meets DAS requirements. |
Consensus layer |
Data Availability Sampling Networking RFP |
Qi Zhou |
Completing prototype of DAS corrupted proofs/samples detection and simulation. |
Consensus layer |
Altair Fork Implementation: Formal Safety Verification |
ConsenSys R&D (Distributed Protocols Formal Verification Team) |
The safety of fork implementation is reviewed and formal verified. Ethereum proof-of-stake consensus specifications Catch edge cases and bugs. |
Consensus layer |
Lodestar Consensus Client |
ChainSafe |
Continued development of the Lodestar consensus client, with a focus on light client R&D and JavaScript ecosystem tooling. |
Consensus layer |
Tse Lab |
Stanford Center for Blockchain Research |
Support for research on key areas of improvement in data availability techniques for Blockchains. |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
BLS Website Update |
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Improving the BLS wallet website, a layer-2 smart contract wallet that uses BLS signatures to aggregate transactions and reduce gas costs. |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Enhancing MEV Resistance |
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Designing a new commit/reveal scheme that has improved proposer-builder separation and will better resist maximal extractable value (MEV) It is beneficial to users, builders, and proposers. |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Mu Methods |
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Research for a prototype implementation of an Ethereum-native web client wallet that utilizes Shamir’s secret sharing Social key recovery |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
Multi-Proof Agregation of Zk-SNARKs On Ethereum (MAZE). |
Dohoon Kim, Janmajaya Mall. Soowon Jeong |
PLONK framework utilizing proof aggregation to develop applied ZK proofs You can’t solve the problem without a thorough understanding of proving and arithmetization systems. |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
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Personae Labs |
Support Personae Labs which develops technology and products for understanding how the availability advanced cryptography on consumer devices will change the way people interact online. |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
RLN Library Rust |
Rasul Ibragimov |
Help with the development of an easy-to-use and WASM-compatible rate limiting nullifier (RLN) Rust library with the Vac team Users can generate proofs and witness, build provers or verifiers, as well as verify proofs. Build a Persistent Merkle Tree implementation Rust. |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
RSA Verification Circuit in halo2 |
Sora Suegami |
The development of a RSA Verification Circuit using the halo2 library, allowing developers the ability to write circuits that verify RSA-based encryption schemes such as RSA Signature, RSA accumulator and verifiable delayed function. |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
TAZ Dapp |
Colleen Rose, Danilo Kim, Falco Rodenburg, Lee Poettcker. Rich Warner |
Dapp that allows users to explore what they can build with SemaphoreThis is a temporary anonymous zone community hub for Devcon VI. |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
ZK Gadgets ZK Eigen Trust |
Özgür Armanc Yigit |
Building, testing the edge cases of, and optimizing gadgets for ZK Eigen Trust—a reputation management algorithm for peer-to-peer networks, using the halo2 The system of proving and the libp2p peer-to-peer networking framework. |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
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Zkopru |
Layer 2 scaling solution using zk SNARK for private transactions optimistic rollups. |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
zkRSA |
Pierre Daix-Moreux |
The development of a proof-of-concept application for proving that a document is valid using an RSA Signature and a Public Key. |
Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs |
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0xPARC Foundation |
Support for 0xPARC Foundation, an organization promoting application-level innovation in areas such as applied crypto R&D, open-source Education and ecosystem development, as well tools and infrastructure. |
Developer experience & tooling |
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BuidlGuidl |
Support for BuidlGuidl – a developer’s community and a series of educational initiatives aimed at onboarding Ethereum developers. |
Developer experience & tooling |
Exploit Database |
Domantas Pelaitis, Ivan Miragaya, Jogundas Armaitis. Matas Povilauskas |
Open-sourcea comprehensive database that anyone can add to. It will serve as an educational tool. |
Developer experience & tooling |
solidity.tw |
Tai Hung Ying |
A series of articles and videos in traditional Chinese on Ethereum fundamentals and Solidity. |
Developer experience & tooling |
SolQL |
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Support SolQL’s codebase development with new abstractions, tests and documentation. Engage in developer outreach and feedback for further functionality. |
Developer experience & tooling |
TrueBlocks |
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TrueBlocks is a local-first, lightweight index for Ethereum blockchain data. The work will focus on various improvements such as porting the code to Go and completing an IPFS Shareable index and layer 2 indexing. |
Developer experience & tooling |
Web3j |
Web3 Labs |
Web3j is a lightweight Java/Android library that integrates with Ethereum clients. |
Developer experience & tooling |
web3swift |
Anton Grigorev, Petr Korolev. Yaroslav |
Swift library with full-featured web3 functionality for iOS/macOS. Includes native ABI parsing, smart contract interaction on the Ethereum network. |
Research into general topics |
Game Theory Backend Act |
20squares |
Toolchain to analyze smart contracts using the theory of compositional games, with a decompiler included. EVM Bytecode is a way to embed bytecode in a webpage. Act specification language Then, you can. open games Backend for Act. A complete example of MEV Analysis will be provided. |
Direct funding |
Gitcoin GR15 DeSci Side Round |
Gitcoin |
Matching pool funds for Gitcoin’s GR15 DeSci Side Round. The round was focused on projects reimagining research incentives, culture, infrastructure, and web3 technology. |
Direct funding |
Quadratic Funding at Devcon VI |
clr.fund |
Funding for projects in Latin America through the Quadratic Funding Round that was run during Devcon VI. |
Layer 2 |
Pheasant Network |
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Insights about the research and development challenges surrounding optimistic bridges. Investigating how different projects are addressing these issues. |
Other |
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European Crypto Initiative (EUCI) |
Support the EUCI which advocates and contributes to developing EU regulations that favor open, permissionless decentralized applications using blockchain technology. |